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SUBMITTER: Dekker N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5039426 | biostudies-other | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Dekker Niels N Daemen Ineke I Verstappen Koen K de Greeff Astrid A Smith Hilde H Duim Birgitta B
Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) 20160630 3
Invasive Streptococcus suis (S. suis) infections in pigs are often associated with serotypes 2 and 9. Mucosal sites of healthy pigs can be colonized with these serotypes, often multiple serotypes per pig. To unravel the contribution of these serotypes in pathogenesis and epidemiology, simultaneous quantification of serotypes is needed. A quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) targeting cps2J (serotypes 2 and 1/2) and cps9H (serotype 9) was evaluated with nasal and tonsillar samples from S. suis expos ...[more]